Before I begin, a massive thanks to Skinner, on whose site this all took place. (I hope he’s proud.)
Skinner does an occassional series where he answers the often absurd questions posted on CNN’s front page. Here is today’s:
Well, I couldn’t top that, but I was drawn to the next point, “Glenn Close upset over Navy video.” And it went from there.
Clearly, there had been some sort of misunderstanding on my part. I attempted to correct it.
I’m not sure that cleared it up at all. In fact, I think it made things worse.
For those of you who tried in vain to click on the video above, here it is: (Click on this one, guys.)
I may not have quite gotten it right again.
And that’s the way we ended it, but not before Skinner and I found some common ground. Here I present, for the first time outside of Skinner.fm, Glenn Close’s audition for The Horror of Party Beach.
It was sad. Some of those “kids” and “boys” are over 40, and it shows. Watch the video below and marvel at how laughable some of the “dance moves” are. Obviously, a couple of those children are not as mobile as they used to be. I am sure at one point they were doing the same shuffling moves Popeye used to do in the old Kings Features Syndicate cartoons. Plenty of downtime was built into the routine too. While one group was performing, the other simply stood in the back, resting. After all, they have to be careful- a couple of those guys are in danger of breaking a hip.
Despite the crowd going nuts (and if you had been standing in Times Square for ten hours you’d be going nuts too) they really embarrassed themselves. The songs have not held up. Disposable teen pop is, by definition, disposable. Although any attempt to recycle it rides a very small wave of nostalgia, watching it performed by mature older men dressed in conservative suits was too much. It was all very sad.
They came across as their own tribute band in a 90’s revue.
Nine old men shuffling around the stage trying to recapture the glory of their youth. Sure, they are around 40, not 80, but if you can’t stand Justin Beiber now just wait and see how you feel when he makes a comeback after his hair thins and he does a prostate PSA.
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